Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Flat Social Share Button for Blogger

This easy to follow blogger tutorial explains how to add simple and beautiful post share buttons into your blogger blog. You can share your posts on "Facebook", "Twitter", "Google Plus", "Linkedin" and "Pinterest" social networks after adding this buttons into your blog.
As you know flat design is the latest trend now a days and as a designer I feel you’d love this buttons.

Step 1)  Go to Blogger Dashboard > Template > Edit HTML and copy past below CSS just before </style>
/* CSS Share Button */
.sharepost li{width:19%;padding:0;list-style:none;}
.sharepost li a{opacity:0.8;padding:10px 0;color:#fff;display:block;border:double #fff;}
.sharepost{overflow:hidden;text-align:center;margin-bottom:20px;margin-top:20px;}
.sharepost li a:hover{opacity:1;color:#444;border:double #fff;}
.sharepost li .twitter{background-color:#55acee;}
.sharepost li .facebook{background-color:#3b5998;}
.sharepost li .gplus{background-color:#dd4b39;}
.sharepost li .pinterest{background-color:#cc2127;}
.sharepost li .linkedin{background-color:#0976b4;}
.sharepost li .twitter:hover,.sharepost li .facebook:hover,.sharepost li .gplus:hover,
.sharepost li .pinterest:hover,.sharepost li .linkedin:hover{background-color:#444;color:#fff;}
.sharepost li{float:left;margin-right:1.2%}
.sharepost li:last-child{margin-right:0}
.sharepost li .fa:before{margin-right:5px}

Step 2)  Now past below code before  </head> tag
<link href='https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css' rel='stylesheet'/>

Step3: Now add this code right after <data:post.body/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
        <div class='sharepost'>
                <ul>
                <li><a class='twitter' expr:href='&quot;http://twitter.com/share?url=&quot; + data:post.url' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Twitter Tweet'><i class='fa fa-twitter'/>Tweet</a></li>

                <li><a class='facebook' expr:href='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=&quot; + data:blog.url' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Facebook Share'><i class='fa fa-facebook'/>Share</a></li>
                <li><a class='gplus' expr:href='&quot;http://plus.google.com/share?url=&quot; + data:blog.url' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='Google Plus Share'><i class='fa fa-google-plus'/>Share</a></li>
    <li><a class='linkedin' expr:href='&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;amp;url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title + &quot;&amp;amp;summary=&quot; + data:post.snippets' target='_blank'><i class='fa fa-linkedin'/>Share</a></li>
                <li><a class='pinterest' expr:href='&quot;http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;amp;media=&quot; + data:post.thumbnailUrl + &quot;&amp;amp;description= + data:post.title&quot;' target='_blank'><i class='fa fa-pinterest'/>Share</a></li>
                </ul>
         </div> </b:if>


Save template.

Once everything is done, press Save template button and you have successfully added Flat Social Share bar in Blogger.


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